Haven't seen that one. So one of the main reasons we had this kind of freestyle painted posters back then in Poland (and other former commie countries) instead of the usual realistic ones common on the other side of the iron curtain is because there was little to no photo/visual material for the poster artists to base their paintings on. No press photos, no lobby cards, no nothing. So it was up to the individual artist to come up with something, anything. Sometimes they let their imagination loose and created something iconic (see W.Górka's poster for Bob Fosse's Cabaret), other times... they did something like this;)
very interesting. I guess that is Lee?
ReplyDeleteHaven't seen that one. So one of the main reasons we had this kind of freestyle painted posters back then in Poland (and other former commie countries) instead of the usual realistic ones common on the other side of the iron curtain is because there was little to no photo/visual material for the poster artists to base their paintings on. No press photos, no lobby cards, no nothing. So it was up to the individual artist to come up with something, anything. Sometimes they let their imagination loose and created something iconic (see W.Górka's poster for Bob Fosse's Cabaret), other times... they did something like this;)
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